This Easy Apple Pie is perfect for beginners because there is no stubborn pastry dough to deal with. With just 8 different ingredients and a 10 minute prep time, it proves that apple pie can be stress-free!
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Why this Easy Apple Pie Recipe is a Keeper
I love this recipe for easy apple pie so much because it’s super easy. Not only is it beginner friendly, it’s absolutely delicious!
- Easy Ingredients: This double crust pie uses 8 common ingredients you often have on hand. Perfect if you love apple pie!
- Consistent Results: This apple crumb pie recipe turns out well every time you make it.
- Great for Beginner Cooks: This classic apple baked pie is approachable for both beginners and experts.
- Special Occasion Worthy: Dutch crumb apple pie is impressive enough to serve at a seasonal gatherings or holidays.
What are the Best Apples for Apple Pie?
The best apples for apple pie are generally nice firm apples. Soft and sweet apples are delicious for snacking but can be too soft to bake with. Honeycrisp or Granny Smith apples are firm and tart yet sweet, making them great for pie!
Ingredient Notes for the Best Apple Pie and Pie Crust
You will need just a few simple ingredients to make the best apple pie. If you don’t happen to already have the ingredients around your kitchen, they’re all super easy to find at the store.
- Apples: Make sure to peel, slice and core your favorite tart apples.
- Flour: Don’t pack the flour into your measuring cup when you measure it out.
- Cinnamon: Cinnamon is what will give you that cozy fall dessert taste.
See the recipe card below for a complete list of the ingredients with measurements.
Prep Ahead Suggestions to Make this Easy Apple Pie
Prepping ingredients ahead of time can help reduce time and energy when it comes to making the pie.
- Peel and slice apples: Peel, core, and slice the apples in apple pie in advance.
- Make Pie Crust: Use a store-bought crust for your deep dish pie to cut down time that would be spent on making pie crust from scratch! You could even do a double-crust pie when baking a pie.
Special Equipment Needed for Crumble Topped Apple Pie
Sometimes having that one piece of special equipment can make all the difference, whether that’s making the task go quicker or just easier!
- Apple Peeler & Corer: To make peeling and coring the apples go a little quicker, you may want to consider getting an apple peeler and corer.
Fun Fact
Fun fact, there are over 2,500 varieties of apples that are grown in the United States!
How to Make Apple Pie
This easy pie filling and pie crust recipe comes together in just 4 simple steps. Even though it doesn’t take much effort, the result is still mouth-watering!
These are the basic steps for making Easy Apple Pie with Crumb Topping. Refer to the full, printable recipe card below for detailed instructions.
1. Preheat Oven and Prep Pie Plate
Preheat the oven to 400℉ and spray a 9 inch glass pie plate with cooking spray.
2. Make the Homemade Pie Crust and Topping
Add flour, sugar, cinnamon and salt to a pie plate and stir together with a fork. Combine milk and oil, pour over dry ingredients and mix. Save ⅓ of the pie crust dough for the crumb topping.
Press the pie dough for the bottom crust into the 9-inch pie dish, making sure to go up the sides.
3. Make the Apple Filling
Microwave the apple slices and sugar on high for 2 minutes. Add flour to the apples and microwave for another 2 minutes. Add lemon juice, salt and cinnamon and toss the apple mixture.
4. Assembling the Pie and Bake the Pie
Pour the pie filling into the edge of the pie crust. Scatter the reserved dough across the top of the unbaked pie pan for the crumb topping. Place the pie in the oven. Apple pie bakes for 30 minutes. Apple pie is done when the crust is golden brown.
How to Store, Reheat and Use Leftovers
- Storing: Store your favorite apple pie with flaky pie crust in an airtight container or wrapped well with foil. Keep in the refrigerator and it will be good for up to 4 days.
- Reheating: Reheat the pie by lining a baking sheet with parchment paper and allow the pie to warm up in a preheated 350 degrees oven for about 15 minutes. Add cheddar cheese, ice cream or whipped cream to the top of your pie.
- Using Leftovers: Serve any leftover pie with a scoop of vanilla ice cream on top of the pie; What’s apple pie without some ice cream!
Variations and Substitutions for the Best Apple Pie Recipe
Feel free to mix up the recipe a little bit to make your own variety of apple pie!
- Add Different Spices: Cinnamon, nutmeg or other spices can be added to this pie.
- Pie Crust: Get a premade pie crust if you’re not feeling like making your own!
Perfect Apple Pie Recipe FAQs
Try serving your delicious apple pie with Gingersnap and Eggnog Ice Cream Sandwiches or Stabilized Whipped Cream.
You can store this baked apple pie in the freezer after you cool the pie. Make sure to place pie in an airtight container and it should last 6-9 months. Let the pie thaw at room temperature before eating the chilled pie.
If you want to make this classic apple pie into a square for individual pie bars, use an 8×8 inch baking dish!
Expert Tips to Love this Recipe
- Pie Shield: Use a pie shield, perfect for making a pie.
- Short cut tip: Frozen apples can be used, no need to peel them.
- Topping: Sprinkle a little more sugar on top of the pie crust crumble!
- Pie Crust: If you want to use a homemade pie crust that you’ve made before and love, go ahead and bake this pie with your own crust.
- Other Mix-Ins: Nuts or cranberries can make a nice addition to the pie.
- Low Sugar: Feel free to use a sugar alternative such as Splenda in this apple crumble pie that’s easy to follow.
- Pie on a Baking Sheet: Place your glass pie dish on a baking sheet to easily grab it out of the oven and in case it bubbles over and makes a mess all over the pan and not your oven.
Easy Apple Pie with Crumb Topping
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Equipment
- Cooking Spray
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Ingredients
Crust
- 2 cups Flour
- 2 teaspoons Sugar
- ¾ teaspoon Salt
- ½ teaspoon Cinnamon
- ⅔ cup Canola oil
- 3 tablespoons Milk
Apple Filling
- 4 cups Apples, peeled, cored and sliced
- ⅔ cup Sugar
- 3 tablespoons Flour
- Lemon juice, dash
- Salt, dash
- 2 teaspoons Cinnamon
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400℉.
- Spray pie plate with an even coating of cooking spray. Add flour, sugar, cinnamon and salt in a pie plate. Stir with fork until combined.
- In a small bowl, combine milk and oil and pour over dry ingredients. Reserve ⅓ of the combined dough for the crumb topping.
- Press remaining dough into the pie plate, making sure to go up the sides.
- Place the apples and sugar in a microwave safe bowl and microwave on high for 2 minutes. Add flour to the apples and microwave for an additional 2 minutes.
- Stir in lemon juice, salt and cinnamon. Pour filling into prepared crust. Scatter the reserved dough across the top for the crumb topping.
- Bake for 30 minutes until golden brown.
Christina’s Notes
- Pie Shield: Use a pie shield, perfect for making a pie.
- Short cut tip: Frozen apples can be used, no need to peel them.
- Topping: Sprinkle a little more sugar on top of the pie crust crumble!
- Pie Crust: If you want to use a homemade pie crust that you’ve made before and love, go ahead and bake this pie with your own crust.
- Other Mix-Ins: Nuts or cranberries can make a nice addition to the pie.
- Low Sugar: Feel free to use a sugar alternative such as Splenda in this apple crumble pie that’s easy to follow.
- Pie on a Baking Sheet: Place your glass pie dish on a baking sheet to easily grab it out of the oven and in case it bubbles over and makes a mess all over the pan and not your oven.
- Scale the recipe: Simply adjust the serving size in the recipe card and the ingredients will update automatically.
- Make your own All Purpose Seasoning: When a recipe calls for All Purpose Seasoning, you can use my homemade All Purpose Seasoning recipe or substitute salt and pepper to taste.
- Meat doneness: I always use a meat thermometer to test for doneness when cooking meat.
- Use unsalted butter: I use unsalted butter so I can control the salt level in the recipe.
- Preheat the oven: Unless otherwise noted, always preheat your oven before baking.
For more helpful information about this recipe, such as variations, substitutions and other pro-tips, check out the blog post.
Biggest mishap was when my electricity went out & our dinner ended up cancelled because we had no power for 4 long hours. It was crazy!
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Mine was when I tried making a pie and i decided to make two, and tried doubling the recipe….I’m not good with math LOL it was AWFUL!
My biggest holiday cooking mishap was when my Mom asked me to turn on the stove for the Turkey to begin cooking. I set my alarm and it didn’t go off. The Turkey was very late at arriving that day – and I was put into the Bird-House.
Usually on Thanksgiving we put the turkey in at 4 in the morning so it will be ready by lunch. One time we forgot and didn’t put it in until almost 10, making us have to postpone Thanksgiving until dinner. We just ordered some pizzas for the visiting family and engaged in 6 hours of awkward forced conversation!!!!
I once made a pumpkin pie that WOULD NOT set! I don’t know what I did differently that time from every other time but…it was more like sweet pumpkin soup!
UGH! That must have been so frustrating!
My biggest mishap was misunderstanding 2 tsp’s for 2 tbsp’s of baking soda in a cookie recipe.
I tried making brittle but it didn’t harden.
Hopefully, it wasn’t a gloopy mess.
My biggest mishap was trying a new recipe for cookies and proceeding to burn them. Test out new recipes before holiday visitors arrive.
Definitely good advice!
the heating coil in my oven went out so ran everything over to the neighbors, dropped the sweet patatoe casserole, food dripped in their oven so had to go back later to clean it up before they got home beings they were so gracious to let us have at their kitchen while they were away for the day at their family’s. uhg! we were exausted but so thankful for great neighbors.& while we were running back & forth all 38 of us just kept laughing & saying your turn to go. now it’s funny
How nice of your neighbors! THat was a real life-saver!
My biggest baking mishap has got to be a tie between burning the cookies once or burning the frozen pie. I seriously can’t bake that well… maybe I don’t need this after all JK! 🙂
I’m intrigued by burning a frozen pie! 🙂
My biggest mishap is food sticking to the pans! Grrrr! I hate that!
grossly underestimating the time a turkey takes to cook!
Very true!
I tried to bake sugar cookies and I didn’t space them enough and they all melted together on the pan.
Looks so yummy!
My biggest holiday mishap was many years ago when I was first married. I decided to thaw a frozen turkey, that I had received from my employer, outside on the patio. I went to check on it a few hours later, and the neighbors cat had eaten through the plastic and was in the process of devouring the turkey. Luckily, I had time to get another turkey from the grocery, and the dinner turned out fine! Fortunately, for all my future guests, I have learned a lot since then!! But, we still laugh about it.!!
Oh no! I can’t even imagine! Good thing you were able to get a new one in time! Thanks for sharing!
This recipe sounds wonderful. My favorite part of any pie is the filling, so this is perfect for my taste! Great pie plate, too!
Mine was a turkey that tasted rancid. I won’t name the brand but won’t buy it again. Thanks for chance to win.
That sounds awesome. It’s not Thanksgiving around my house without an apple pie.
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